proper speech functioning in human being, depends on the precise coordination and timing balances in a series of complex neuro nuscular movements and actions. starting from the prime organ of energy source of expelled air from respirato y system; deliver such air to trigger vocal cords; swift changes of this phonatory episode to a comprehensible sound in resonace and final coordination of all h...

This paper looks at the impact of “Talking Aloud Pair Problem Solving” (TAPPS) on student performance in a productivity application course. The argument is that success working with productivity applications involves success solving problems. By enhancing students’ problem solving skills, TAPPS enhances student performance. The empirical evidence presented indicates that those students who foll...

Deductive synthesis methods derive programs in an incremental manner, and therefore pose a halting problem { when can synthesis stop with a correct program? We give a characterisation of this problem and state a halting principle as a solution. Another characteristic of deductive synthesis is that it may derive several correct programs, giving rise to another question { which correct programs a...

This paper deals with the problem of speech waveform polarity. As the polarity of speech waveform can influence the performance of pitch marking algorithms (see Sec. 4), a simple method for the speech signal polarity determination is presented in the paper. We call this problem peak/valley decision making, i.e. making of decision whether pitch marks should be placed at peaks (local maxima) or a...